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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Literature
Fictional
Explains
Unlike
Actual

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A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
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Every doctrine has a theory of the beginning.
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Self-deception is nature hypocrisy is art.
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Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
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Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.
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Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.
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I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.
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Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
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A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.
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The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.
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Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.
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Heroes are born to be troublemakers.
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Folly always knows the answer.
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Complainers detest each other.
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Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.
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I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.
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I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.
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Comedy defends the commonplace tragedy explodes it.
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Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
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